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#GIVEAWAY CLOSED Helping Fiskars celebrate their 365th Anniversary!! Imagine that! Founded in 1649 in a small Finnish village, Fiskars has grown over the past 365 years, and now is a leading global supplier in the home, garden, and outdoor product categories. They are famous for the iconic Orange-Handled Scissors. I have a pair of the original […]

Pomegranate is a pretty flower that turns into a beautiful fruit. The fruit is red, festive, and good for you! Excerpt from Plants with Benefits: Pomegranate is one of the super fruits, contributing to a healthy body and all that that implies. Click to Tweet! I asked my friend, Shawna Coronado, to share one of her many recipes using […]

CLOSED. WINNERS ANNOUNCED. It has been a year since Plants With Benefits: An Uninhibited Guide to the Aphrodisiac Herbs, Fruits, Flowers, & Veggies in Your Garden (2014, St. Lynn’s Press) was release. It has been a whirlwind year, and I’m only in the middle of the book tour. I’ve been coast-to-coast 3 times, and featured […]

Like-minded thinkers tend to gravitate everywhere in life; we have a gift for finding each other in coffee shops, similar markets and meetings, the same concerts or museum exhibits, and garden and book clubs. During the past eight years, my life experiences have expanded an infinite fold through the internet. One of those wonderful people […]

Avocado adds flavor to any dish, but I’ve felt that I’ve been stuck in a rut with how I ate them. Since the release of my newest book, Plants with Benefits, a must-have plant with benefits, I’ve been exploring ways to add avocado to my everyday, easy diet. Carolyn Binder, who blogs at Cowlick Cottage Farm, […]

Ever notice how some gardeners just seem to garden with ease, with not a care in the world? Their garden grows well – better than yours, in fact, despite all your efforts. One question: Do you have a bottle tree? Bottle trees are the ultimate accent to gardening with confidence. Think about it, a bottle […]

I’ve often wondered if the childhood memory of the image of my Polish grandfather sitting out back of his Riverside, NJ home, near the grapevine by the shed, that had a coffee grinder on the far wall, touched me to the point of reliving any outdoor scene where food was involved. I can clearly picture […]

Gardens with Latitude–the 26th parallel south latitude to be exact. The 26th parallel south latitude is a circle of latitude that is 26 degrees south of the Earth’s equatorial plane. It crosses the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Australasia, the Pacific Ocean and South America. I would be remiss in saying that […]

Rosemary is a plant with benefits of another kind. Rosemary is known as the herb for remembrance. The phrase, rosemary for remembrance most often references the character Ophelia’s words in William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet. Shakespeare’s famous scene from Hamlet features an increasingly unbalanced Ophelia, who talks, sings, and babbles about her father’s death, to her brother, Laertes. […]

Some might think having 53 different conifers wouldn’t be considered a fledgling collection, particularly when I have multiples of some. Yet, it is. As part of my annual I’m gonnas, I stated that I will continue to grow Helen’s Haven‘s conifer collection. Why now? I’ve been living this garden for 17 years. It sure seems like I […]

What people said from the Northwest Flower & Garden Show:
"Helen Yoest presentation was very very intertesting and well organized.Her time went so fast I wanted to hear more. A excellent speaker. I hope I have another opportunity to hear her."
Kathy Juracek from Browns Point, Wa

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Gardening with Confidence® is a gardening book for beginners as well as seasoned gardeners.

"Helen helps readers explore, discover and
express what their own style actually is. She helps us through this voyage of self-expression laid out not as a designer would approach the subject matter – but as an enlightened guide who over the years has worked through the obstacles. It’s obvious that the author has practiced what works and what doesn’t."